ٱلْبَلَد : ١٦

  • أَوۡ Or
  • مِسۡكِينٗا a needy person
  • ذَا in
  • مَتۡرَبَةٖ misery
Or a needy person in misery
or a needy person in misery (matraba: [literally means] 'clinging to the dust [turaab]' because of his poverty; a variant reading has two verbal nouns in place of the two verbs [fakka, 'he freed', and at'ama, 'he fed'], the first being in a genitive construction, fakku raqabatin, 'the freeing of a slave', and the second with nunation, it'aamun, 'to give food', in which case there is an implied iqtihaamu before al-'aqaba, of which the said reading becomes the explication);